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GTA 4
“For me, I love the model of GTA 4 when you had the extra stories coming afterwards or Red Dead 1 when you had the zombie pack coming afterwards.”
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Red Dead 1
“For me, I love the model of GTA 4 when you had the extra stories coming afterwards or Red Dead 1 when you had the zombie pack coming afterwards.”
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Blade Runner
“The story was Blade Runner is my favorite, and that’s… it’s obvious, you know, the replicants are better than the humans.”
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1984
“I love 1984. I’d never listened to it or read it, and then I think I did it on Talking Book, or I maybe read it, I can’t remember, during COVID.”
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01 / evaluation
You know, I think there was always… There was a bit at the start of RDR where he’d had a baby who just died in Red Dead 2, and we ended up cutting it, which was the right decision.
“You know, I think there was always… There was a bit at the start of RDR where he’d had a baby who just died in Red Dead 2, and we ended up cutting it, which was the right decision.”
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- Dan Houser
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
02 / evaluation
I think in a game like GTA IV, which I worked on and loved and I thought the story was great, but we got criticized because people felt there was almost too much story, and that meant you cared too much about Nico, and he wasn’t as effective an avatar in the open world.
“I think in a game like GTA IV, which I worked on and loved and I thought the story was great, but we got criticized because people felt there was almost too much story, and that meant you cared too much about Nico, and he wasn’t as effective an avatar in the open world.”
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- Dan Houser
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
03 / evaluation
I think GTA IV was very pressured because there’d been all this pressure on the company.
“I think GTA IV was very pressured because there’d been all this pressure on the company.”
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- Dan Houser
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
04 / evaluation
We really tried to market them in a way that felt like an update of classic film marketing, where you were really… It felt like you’re already in the product just because you’d seen the trailers and stuff.
“We really tried to market them in a way that felt like an update of classic film marketing, where you were really… It felt like you’re already in the product just because you’d seen the trailers and stuff.”
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- Dan Houser
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
05 / evaluation
I think the power and money corrupted him in the end as well, but I also think that there’s something fundamentally anti-human about people who want to build utopias or paradises or heavens, because what they’re saying is, “I like humans apart from the bad bits.
“I think the power and money corrupted him in the end as well, but I also think that there’s something fundamentally anti-human about people who want to build utopias or paradises or heavens, because what they’re saying is, “I like humans apart from the bad bits.”
- Speaker
- Dan Houser
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
06 / evaluation
We made Red Dead Revolver, decided that, or finished Red Dead Revolver, that had been a Capcom game.
“We made Red Dead Revolver, decided that, or finished Red Dead Revolver, that had been a Capcom game.”
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- Dan Houser
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
07 / evaluation
It was insane. So I think that that period from kind of 2001 to 2005, it was lots of early innovation and felt really exciting because we were doing new stuff.
“It was insane. So I think that that period from kind of 2001 to 2005, it was lots of early innovation and felt really exciting because we were doing new stuff.”
- Speaker
- Dan Houser
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast